Recent years have seen a renewed spotlight on company leadership and management, owing to everything from mass layoffs in various industries amid cost-cutting to return-to-office mandates to pullbacks from ESG efforts.
Employee sentiment toward senior leadership is a big factor in attracting and retaining talent. So which companies are doing the best job of leading their businesses in their employees' eyes?
A new Glassdoor ranking published Wednesday sought to find out. It's based on reviews submitted between March 1, 2023, and Feb 29, 2024, by current employees as well as former employees who left in 2023 or 2024.
To be eligible, companies needed to have at least 100 ratings across each of two leadership attributes — CEO job performance and senior management rating — from US-based employees. They also needed at least 1,000 employees at the end of the eligibility period.
The best-represented industry in the list was tech, followed by finance, consulting, and retail. Glassdoor also analyzed 5-star senior management reviews from the US in that period and found several keywords repeatedly popped up: collaborative, supportive, flexible, inclusive, passionate, and culture.
Here are Glassdoor's 50 best-led companies:
- Bain & Company
- Databricks
- Protiviti
- NVIDIA
- Raymond James Financial
- Equitable Advisors
- AMD
- Samsara
- In-N-Out Burger
- Autodesk
- USI Insurance Services
- Eli Lilly and Company
- Hendrick Automotive Group
- Houston Methodist
- Intuitive (Intuitive Surgical)
- Power Home Remodeling
- Total Quality Logistics
- Schneider Electric
- KBR
- Turner Construction
- Keller Williams
- Adobe
- Insperity
- Booz Allen Hamilton
- World Wide Technology
- HEB
- ServiceNow
- Fidelity Investments
- Camden Property Trust
- Zeigler Auto Group
- Calix
- Gartner
- CoreLogic
- Delta Air Lines
- Northwestern Mutual
- ManTech
- Boston Scientific
- Omni Hotels
- QuikTrip
- ASML
- TCC Verizon Authorized Retailer
- Microsoft
- Cardinal Group Companies
- Mastercard
- Quick Quack Car Wash
- Progressive Insurance
- SAIC
- PSCU
- Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
- Experian